Companies including Locus Telecommunications, Lyca Tel, NobelTel, Simple Network, STi Telecom and Touch-Tel USA, LLC were each fined $5 million for deceptively marketing prepaid calling cards to ...

About $6 billion in long distance charges will be billed to 108 million calling cards in 1990, according to Transaction Billing Resources Inc., which processes calling card bills. At least half of ...

— -- State and federal officials are cracking down on prepaid calling cards that promise more minutes than they deliver to immigrants, soldiers in Iraq and other frustrated phone-card users ...

WASHINGTON – Rosalba Posada can tick off a list of problems she has encountered trying to use prepaid calling cards to stay in touch with family back in Colombia. There were the cards that didn ...

— -- State and federal officials are cracking down on prepaid calling cards that promise more minutes than they deliver to immigrants, soldiers in Iraq and other frustrated phone-card users ...

And those gift card companies want to give that money back," the FTC said in its blog post. Here are steps, highlighted by the agency, that consumers should take if they suspect they have been conned.